When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
The seed of revolution is repression.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.